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as far as they go take away the plea for the pension
of retreat.
To facilitate this necessary ceremony in the
so necessary to the individual, it could do no harm
and might do some good to as draw a line and
make a nominal division of the salary into two
parts one for attached for the support of the officer
while in office, the other to form an accumulating
fund for his support in the event of his leaving his
office, or for his representatives in case of his decease.
The In the arithmetic of official profusion, the
computation is apt to be the reverse. The higher greater
the pension annexed to the place, the greater higher the
stat state of living which it seems to be enjoined
the placeman to support: and but the higher his state
of living while in office, the higher it he ought to
be enabled to keep it, even when out of office, that
his downfal may not be too severe upon his him feelings:
the greater therefore the occasion for a pension on
retreat.
All this while it what seems to escape consideration
is that in the free professions while &c afford there is no pension of retreat
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